Chapter 471: The Attitude of the Great Powers (Part II)
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In fact, at the beginning, including Roosevelt, they all believed that with the strength of the Japanese navy, it was impossible for the Chinese to burn the flames of war to the Japanese mainland, and even Taiwan and Penghu, which were lost after the Sino-Japanese War, were difficult to recapture, and it was not easy to recover all the lost land land, including the three eastern provinces. However, they did not expect that the Japanese authorities would go so far as to ignore the economic situation at home and go all out to use force, so that the domestic economy had already collapsed before the war was completely lost. As a result, mass violence in Japan became more and more frequent, and even there were many mutinies in the Japanese army, and there were even a few obviously organized armed riots, which immediately reminded Americans of the October Revolution, which was successful precisely because the domestic economy of Tsarist Russia collapsed and the army was centrifuged, and as a result, after the outbreak of the revolution, many soldiers sided with the revolutionaries, and the Tsarist regime quickly collapsed. If a similar situation were to occur in Japan, then even if China did not have a strong navy, it would be able to attack the Japanese mainland with foreign cooperation, which the Americans would never want to see
For this reason, the United States has provided a large number of loans and orders to Japan, and after the Nanyang route was cut off by the Chinese Navy's task force ship formation, the US government directly sent a large amount of urgently needed grain from the mainland to Japan on credit (before Japan's domestic food gap was mainly filled by importing rice from Thailand), as for those army weapons, it was not that the US government intended to sell them to Japan, but purely because the huge arms giants in the United States saw that the farmers made more money (even if Japan did not pay back). It is only the U.S. government that loses, and the farmers have long since received payment from the U.S. government. The run on the U.S. government was only a way to get permission to sell, but Roosevelt and the U.S. government did not necessarily use this to psychologically intimidate the Red Party into taking it as it pleased, and not getting an inch
Britain and the Soviet Union also strongly oppose China's counterattack on the Japanese mainland, among which the British mentality is similar to that of the United States, although Britain's national strength is far from being compared with before World War I, but before being woken up by the mustache, the British themselves still generally regard themselves as shijie hegemons, and the "shijie hegemony" that the United States, the Soviet Union and Germany challenge them is big enough, how can they tolerate one more China? What's more, the Chinese are still yellow. This is even more intolerable to the British, who have a white supremacy mentality in their bones. Furthermore. The British suffered the greatest losses in the PLA's efforts to reclaim the concessions and other powers in China, which made them more and more hostile to Red China, and naturally did not want China to succeed in its revival
And the attitude of the Soviet Union was even more resolute than that of the United States and Great Britain. Because there are still historical issues such as territory between China and the Soviet Union that need to be resolved. At the same time, if China really develops rapidly into a first-class power comparable to the Soviet Union. Can the leadership of the international communist movement remain as firmly in the hands of the Soviet Union as it is now? Therefore, in any case, the Soviet Union will not sit idly by and watch the Chinese counteroffensive hit the Japanese mainland, although it is hindered by the image of the big brother of the international communist movement and the strong combat power of the People's Liberation Army on land. It was impossible for the Soviet Union to directly intervene with troops, but they made full use of their status as the big brother of the international communist movement and repeatedly put pressure on the Red Party, saying that "China still wants to strive for peace and let the people recover from the trauma of war as soon as possible." At the same time, he called on the Japanese Communist Party to adopt a peaceful method of struggle as much as possible, and not to indulge in riots and "military movements" that do not conform to Japan's national conditions; fortunately, the current Japanese Communist Party is no longer the Japanese Communist Party in history, otherwise I am afraid that it will really listen to the Soviet Union and kill itself
Compared with these three countries, the attitude of Germany and France is neutral, but it is only neutral, after all, China's annexation of Japan is not a good thing for them. Among them, France is relatively biased towards Japan because of the attitude of its ally Britain, while Germany is slightly biased towards China out of the hope that China will help it attract the attention of the United States and the Soviet Union, but even if it is crazy like a mustache, it will not offend the four powers of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and Japan at the same time for the sake of China.
Although the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain had no intention of directly intervening in the Sino-Japanese War, the large amount of economic aid provided by the United States alone allowed the famine in Japan to be temporarily resolved, which was enough to make the already servile Japanese people become loyal to the emperor again. Without the cooperation of the Japanese revolutionary armed forces, even if the main force of the Japanese Navy was pinned down in the South China Sea by a task force of ships, the PLA would hardly have the possibility of landing on the four Japanese islands. What made Hu Weidong even more angry and helpless was that some ships of the US Pacific Fleet sailed back and forth in the Tsushima Strait in the name of "maintaining peace and stability in the western Pacific," so that the PLA's "smuggling" Jihua was forced to give up before it could even begin
Although I believe in the courage of the vast number of commanders and fighters of the People's Liberation Army to sacrifice for the country, after all, "manpower is sometimes poor", and when the US Seventh Fleet sailed into the Taiwan Strait, even a great man like Taizu could only temporarily postpone the liberation of Taiwan. The landing in Japan is far away, and the stalemate is not very good for domestic reunification and post-war reconstruction, so although Hu Weidong and other Red Party members are unwilling in their hearts, they still have to start peace talks with Japan again, because now China has completely recovered the lost territory on the land, and has captured the vast majority of the territory of the Korean Peninsula, theoretically the artillery of the People's Liberation Army can even bombard the Japanese mainland, so even though Japan has the support of the three major powers, China's attitude has become tougher than the last time it was negotiated. If because of the pressure of the great powers, the results of the countless martyrs who exchanged their lives for the results of the war are surrendered, then it will not be Taizu and the Chinese Red Party, there is really no way at sea, but even if all the great powers of Shijie are united, they may not dare to go ashore and fight to the death with the PLA
But then again, in fact, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain just don't want China to annex Japan, as long as China gives up landing on Japan, they may not be willing to continue to support Japan in this way, after all, it all costs money! Moreover, neither the United States nor the Soviet Union, the former took into account economic factors, and the latter took into account political factors, and were not willing to be completely hostile to China. In order to prevent long nights and dreams, the three countries even exerted pressure on the Japanese authorities one after another, as if they had all reversed their stance in favor of China overnight. However, even so, due to the great differences between China and Japan on several key issues, the peace talks were at an impasse from the beginning (to be continued......